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Tonight on The Live Feed we're heading back to the Boats and Bluegrass festival to hear from Wisconsin based band, Chicken Wire Empire. The group s...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2022
  • Length: 52:45
Caption: Joyce Yang, Credit: KT Kim
Synesthete Joyce Yang describes the colors of Beethoven's Piano Sonata Op. 31 as she plays.

  • Added: Dec 14, 2020
  • Length: 02:37
Caption: The New York Philharmonic performs at Bravo! Vail in 2019., Credit: Chris Lee
In Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony No. 3, his intention was to shock his audience.

  • Added: Dec 14, 2020
  • Length: 03:13
Caption: Dr. David Korevaar, Credit: Manfred Fuss
He wanted larger and louder. The stage was set for Beethoven, but being on the cusp of change had its challenges.

Bought by WHRV


  • Added: Dec 14, 2020
  • Length: 03:22
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ludwig van Beethoven, b. 1770
Cómo Ludwig van Beethoven proyectó una gran sombra sobre Haydn y Brahms, dos gigantes de la música que vinieron antes y después de él.

  • Added: Dec 14, 2020
  • Length: 03:14
Caption: Ludwig van Beethoven, b. 1770
Beethoven’s teacher, Franz Josef Haydn, was eclipsed by the genius of his young student. Later, a young Johannes Brahms spent decades writing his f...

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  • Added: Dec 14, 2020
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: La producción teatral Fidelio de la Ópera Nacional de Washington, Credit: Courtesy of Washington National Opera
A Ruth Bader Ginsberg le encantaba la única ópera de Ludwig van Beethoven.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2020
  • Length: 03:38
Caption: Washington National Opera's production of "Fidelio", Credit: Courtesy of Washington National Opera
Beethoven wrote one opera, Fidelio. A 2003 production so captivated Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she wrote a letter to the director.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2020
  • Length: 03:11
Caption: Composer and multi-percussionist Evelyn Glennie, Credit: James Callaghan/Courtesy of the Artist
Scottish multi-percussionist Evelyn Glennie has been profoundly deaf since she was 12 years old. We asked her how someone who is deaf can "hear" wi...

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2020
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ludwig van Beethoven, b. 1770
En el apartamento de Ludwig van Beethoven se encontró una carta en un cajón secreto poco después de que el soltero de toda una vida muriera en 1827...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2020
  • Length: 03:40
Caption: Ludwig van Beethoven, b. 1770
A letter was found in a secret drawer in Beethoven's apartment not long after the life-long bachelor died in 1827. It was a 10-page rough draft wri...

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2020
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Evelyn Glennie, Credit: James Callaghan/Courtesy of the Artist
La multipercusionista escocesa Evelyn Glennie ha estado completamente sorda desde los 12 años. Compartió con CPR Classical cómo una persona sorda p...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2020
  • Length: 03:07
Caption: Antoine Pecqueur, French bassoonist, Credit: Mathieu Sautel
The bassoon, the largest woodwind instrument, has a split identity: most bassoonists play German instruments but France has its own. The instrument...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Nov 14, 2014
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Incredible Jimmy Smith
Jimmy Smith was instrumental in shifting the Hammond organ into the spotlight in the jazz genre and his many Blue Note albums of the 50s and 60s, i...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., Spokane Public Radio, Radio New Zealand, KSRQ, and KREV-LP


  • Added: May 27, 2012
  • Length: 50:05
  • Purchases: 5
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Explaining Gypsy Swing

Bought by Delmarva Public Media and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 11:37
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Benny Goodman and his Orchestra
Explaining Swing Jazz

Bought by Delmarva Public Media and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 12:10
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Count Basie
There’s a question every good jazz musician can answer just by listening to a song: "Does it Swing?"

Bought by Delmarva Public Media and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 13:09
  • Purchases: 2
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the sound of ice dripping

Bought by PRX to iTunes


  • Added: Jul 19, 2010
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 1
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A titan of modern music contemplates the spiritual and theoretical dimensions of sound

  • Added: Jan 07, 2008
  • Length: 05:03
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Five musical giants consider a signature movement in new music

  • Added: Jan 07, 2008
  • Length: 05:02
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A conceptualist of sound contemplates the meaning of music

Bought by KGLT and KGOU


  • Added: Jan 07, 2008
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 2
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Rock's leading conceptualist ponders the meaning of sound and music

Bought by KGOU and KVMR


  • Added: Jan 07, 2008
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 2
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Jon Jang, composer and jazz pianist, who paved the way for Asian American jazz musicians.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2007
  • Length: 04:59
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Beloved for his full-length ballets, Stravinsky also created a surprising array of very short pieces for orchestra

  • Added: May 24, 2007
  • Length: 16:24
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Act 2 of Wagner's opera in three minutes

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  • Added: Oct 02, 2006
  • Length: 03:40
  • Purchases: 1